This blog is intended to cover side issues emerging from the discussions of artefact collecting (including metal detecting) on my "Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues" blog. This allows answering misleading points which may require it without sidetracking of other discussions onto unrelated topics, thus freeing the main blog for more serious stuff.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Death of Man Threatened by UK Metal Detectorists

A few months ago there was some discussion here following the false information that a Warsaw address published on metal detecting forum by Richard Lincoln, metal detectorist and garden shed entrepreneur was mine. Metal detectorists were incited to send threatening and abusive material through the post to that address. I learnt yesterday that the man who lived at the address was killed in a horrific car crash the other day.

About Me

British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.